I can't believe how horrible the user interfaces of household appliance can be. We have a microwave which takes at least 5 button presses to get going (yes, I know some microwaves have the nice start button which defaults to 30 secs or 1 minute with a single press). Also, the oven requires powering off at the switchboard to reset the time.
Then there is our car which shows the reversing camera, but only after the phone has connected via bluetooth. That's not much use when the first thing I want to do when getting in the car at home is backing out the driveway! I would be happy to be more patient if these design issues were unavoidable, but they are not. How did these things get past QA?
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I can't believe how horrible the user interfaces of household appliance can be. We have a microwave which takes at least 5 button presses to get going (yes, I know some microwaves have the nice start button which defaults to 30 secs or 1 minute with a single press). Also, the oven requires powering off at the switchboard to reset the time. Then there is our car which shows the reversing camera, but only after the phone has connected via bluetooth. That's not much use when the first thing I want to do when getting in the car at home is backing out the driveway! I would be happy to be more patient if these design issues were unavoidable, but they are not. How did these things get past QA?